Golden Age of type? Or the dark ages?

In ‘Golden age?’ (Eye no. 71 vol. 18), we asked twelve practitioners – art directors, type designers, educators – to suggest examples of typefaces that characterise the Zeitgeist, and show some of their nominated fonts. Now it’s your turn.

Deborah Littlejohn asked these professionals whether the latest developments ‘indicated the emergence of a new “Golden Age” in type design, perhaps akin to that heralded by the invention of the printing press in the sixteenth century, the rise of the independent typographer in the early twentieth century or the fearless experimentation of the 1990s.’

Alfredo Trivino was seduced by the Mediterranean accents of Majerit and Sunday Times Modern designed by Eduardo Manso, Emtype.

What typefaces would you choose? Let us know!

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